Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown. — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty,… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice… — James Williams Copy Share Image
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No person, no matter how clever and deceitful, can indefinitely hide a character that is rotten and out of tune with God.… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs. Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular. — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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